Breaking into show business wasn't easy for Aduba, she told Essence last year when she graced the ESSENCE September issue, but she eventually learned to accept herself:

"This business will try to convince you that you're not enough,” she said. That you're not pretty enough, thin enough, talented enough, interesting enough, experienced enough, and I say, 'Enough. Enough with that!' Who are you to tell me that I am not enough when I know that I am more than enough? I cannot subscribe to anyone else's idea of how I am meant to look, what size I am meant to be, whether I have a gap in my teeth, how I'm supposed to behave, what your idea of what my black womanhood is supposed to look like.